{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"After Coding - A podcast by Pebblebed","title":"Josh Wills on the End of Coding","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":5001,"description":"Josh Wills has shipped code you ran today: Google's ad auction, Slack, and now the data pipelines that train foundation models at Datology. He also barely touches a keyboard anymore.\nHis argument is that this is fine, because writing code was never the job. Understanding the problem was, and review is how a senior engineer proves it. We work through where taste comes from when nobody writes first drafts, why agent-written pipelines run correctly at forty times the cost, why mathematicians are now going through the grief programmers went through a year ago, and whether software will ever get its AlphaZero moment: an engine that teaches us something new about how to build a database, rather than a very fast slot machine trained on ourselves.\nAlso: chess bots that finally feel human, the beer emulator, and why typos are now proof of work.\nChapters\n00:03:59 — Josh's daily practice, and the week it clicked\n00:13:37 — Review was always the job\n00:18:16 — Math's turn: proofs that work but aren't beautiful\n00:24:48 — Agent-written pipelines: correct, and comically expensive\n00:35:07 — Chess bots that feel human\n01:01:20 — Is there a Stockfish for software?\n01:13:08 — Prose as proof of work\n01:16:33 — Paid to understand problems\n\nAfter Coding is hosted by Keith Adams of Pebblebed.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/vxugWmvMw15DLii4iixpIu5o_aqJX7MW3pSPcFBIgYc/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9jYzlm/YjVmYmZiODMwNDhh/ODBhMWNjNzBlMzlh/NWUwOC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}